We are excited to inform our South American Informix Users about the upcoming series of Informix user group events, which is being planned in the following countries : Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela from the 12th of August to the 5th of September. These are half-a-day events, packed with sessions which will be conducted by IBM experts to give you great overview of everything you need to know about Informix, especially around the new features of Informix 12.1.

Join us for these events from August 12 – September 5 to better understand Informix, which is widely regarded as the leading-edge technology in the market, and also to see what IBM can do to help you better realize your business goals, with Informix.

Why should you attend?

Get an up-close look at the capabilities that set Informix apart

Get to know more about what makes IBM Informix 12.1 : Simply Powerful

Learn about the new opportunities and applications in the Mobile space with Informix 12.1

IBM Informix Business Partner Montage : A new video was developed recently, where we tried to find out why our business partners rely on IBM Informix, for their business. The outcome of the video was really promising, as our Business Partners summarized the benefits of IBM Informix, just in the way we are all familiar with it:

“Low cost of owner ship”

“Extremely reliable”

“Flexible”

“Scalable”

“Reliable”

“It just keeps running, without the need of any maintenance”

“Set it and forget about it”

“High availability”

“It is designed to work, and it works just the way it is designed to do”

And at the end of the video, it is great to hear from our business partner, perhaps a very unique and distinguishing fact, that only an Informix user would have the luxury of saying, “I am not just an Informix user, I am an Informix fan!”

A special thanks to all our Business Partners who were a part of this video, for making it a very special and successful one for Informix.

It was a great opportunity for us to meet in person with 100’s of Informix users in Malaysia and Thailand through the series of Discover Informix events we are conducting in the ASEAN region. I would like to personally thank all Informix users who made it to the event – Thank you so much for your support and dedication. The results of these events have been very positive and motivating, and going forward we certainly look forward to meeting with you more often!

After successfully conducting Discover Informix events in Malaysia and Thailand in August, we are now all set to visit Singapore on the 6th of September 2012 (Thursday). The event is scheduled to start from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM at the Marina Bay Sands Convention center, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956.

If you are in (or around) Singapore during the 6th of September, please try and make it to this event. The half a day event, is filled with exciting sessions, taking you through IBM’s commitment to Informix, Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA), Genero, Use case scenario, and How we could make a better Informix community through social media etc.,

Register for the event today : You could register for the event by calling up Irene at +65 6743 1277 or Email her at ibm_informix@projectvaults.com.sg

Looking forward to meeting with you in Singapore, do not forget to register for the event please.

Discover Informix is coming to Thailand on August 7th (Tuesday), from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM at Intercontinental hotel (Venue: Pinnacle 2,3), Bangkok.

If you are around Bangkok during the week of 7th (of August 2012), please join us to for this half a day event and be a part of the largest Informix users gathering Thailand. We will be having some of the members IBM Informix leadership team and Informix subject matter experts to be present for this event in person, and they will be most happy to spend time with you to discuss on how IBM could help better achieve your business goals with Informix.

The half a day event is filled with exciting session spanning from sessions focusing on IBM’s commitment to Informix, to session talking about Genero & Informix warehouse and Informix in the social media.

And to add some fun, we also have lucky draw at the end of the event 🙂

Please register for this event by faxing the attached form to 0-2273-0188, e-mailing ibmmkt@th.ibm.com or by calling up 0-2273-4777 for more information.

The registration form is appended below.

Looking forward to meeting you in person during ‘Discover Informix in Thailand’.

Good news for our Malaysian Informix users: Discover Informix – Informix user group event is coming to Malaysia on August 2nd 2012.

Be sure to be a part of the largest gathering of Informix users in Malaysia on August 2nd (Thursday) from 1: 30 PM to 7: 30 PM at Ballroom A, Level 10, DoubleTree Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, followed by Buka Puasa dinner that will commence from 7:30 PM onwards.

You can get an up-close look at the capabilities that set Informix apart by being a part of this event and get exclusive coverage on new content and value propositions of Informix, straight from the IBM Informix leadership team who will be present at the event.

To register or for more information on the Discover Informix – Informix user group event in Malaysia on August 2nd 2012 please call Irene at +603 7805 1700 or email ibm_informix@siriuscom.my

While speaking with him, I got a chance to ask him about the road map of Informix in 2012. In his response, he spent a few minutes speaking about the milestones achieved by Informix, especially last year.

To summarize, there were a lot a lot of ground breaking technologies that were introduced last year, some of the highlights include

The introduction of Informix 11.7 which revolved around the technology of flexible grid focused on ‘clustering’, which allowed a company to better leverage heterogeneous hardware in a cluster and to leverage on share disk technology. Companies could use it for scale out, workload balancing etc., which eventually helps in achieving 24/7 availability. With these features, we were able to drive a key message to our customers, which is ‘Maintenance and upgrade without any downtime’ – which is extremely valuable to our customers.

Then came the introduction of the ultimate warehouse edition which is an in memory columnar based warehouse that uses extreme compression – we would like to talk about analytics at the speed of thought and our customers have benchmarked that technology at 500 to 700 fast performance improvement

Genero has been OEM’ed from 4J’s. This technology allows our customers to modernize and develop new applications not restricted to web space more importantly in the mobile space.

Jerry reinforced the focus of Informix in the coming years, and touched upon how critical Informix is also to the smarter planet initiative. The road map for Informix looks very promising and allows our customers and prospects to choose a lot of great technologies.